综合英语Book V Unit 6.pptVIP

Pre-reading initiation You are now a third-year student. Can you still recall the days when you prepared yourself for admission to university? Did you memorize a large amount of materials so that you could pass the entrance examination? Or were you opposed to such examination-oriented preparation? Why? Lincoln Steffens, the author of the text, is apparently against the standardized way of preparation. How did he prepare for college? Pre-reading initiation This text is an excerpt taken from Steffens’ Autobiography, published in 1931, which is a long time from now. Do his ideas about preparing for college seem to be out-dated to us? Do his ideas still deserve our attention and discussion? After you read through the text, you will find what happened in the author’s years greatly coincides with what happens today in term of preparing for college. The school education seems to make no changes throughout all these long years. So it is worth our attention to the author’s opinion proposed over 70 years ago and our discussion on school education in China. In-reading interpretation How does the author begin his article? And what are the paragraphs covering this? --- He begins his article with his failure in a number of examinations required for entering the University of California and the cause of the failure. --- paras. 1-4 In-reading interpretation (paras. 1-4) Why did the author fail in the entrance examinations for the University of California? What does the author mean by “the wrong school” and “the right school” in para. 1? Why did the author envy those boys that the the schools, colleges and the world are made for? Why was he often glad that he was not of them (= he was not like them / not of their kind)? In-reading interpretation (paras. 1-4) What kind of students are the elect according to the author in para. 2? --- passive learning: whatever teachers tell them to learn --- mechanical memorization: understand or not --- strange learning motives: not for curiosi